I sent out three more grad school applications today (those for University of Washington: China, Cornell and University of Pennsylvania), bringing the grand total of applications sent to four. To go out tomorrow or Wednesday are University of Washington: Japan and University of Arizona. And then I'm done. It'll be nice to be through with them all, but I'm not looking forward to the wait. I'll just have to throw myself into other things and try my best to forget about it all until the responses start showing up in my mailbox.
Meanwhile, Thanksgiving has come and gone. I have a hard time expressing how much this holiday means to me, mostly because I'm not sure why it does mean so much. Suffice to say it does and I'll get back to the idea of why some other time, like next year. For now, let's just say that I enjoyed the holiday immensely again this year, ate dinner with my mum's family and got to hang with my completely adorable little cousins.
Other than that, the weekend was pretty much a wash. I watched 5 hours of Kim Possible, got a haircut, helped my folks move their furniture, did my laundry, bought Christmas gifts for my grandparents and my mother, wrote some notes and did some research for a short story I'm going to write next weekend and did the outline/scene list for the second draft of my first novel. Which, looking at it, is a pretty big list of things, but I still don't feel like I had a productive weekend. Mostly that's because I didn't actually write anything, but the outline needs tweaks before I'm ready to have a go. The wordcount on the second draft will wait a bit, probably until I return from Russia, unfortunately.